Rails before 1.2.4, as used for Ruby on Rails, allows...
Vulnerability Description
Rails before 1.2.4, as used for Ruby on Rails, allows remote attackers and ActiveResource servers to determine the existence of arbitrary files and read arbitrary XML files via the Hash.from_xml (Hash#from_xml) method, which uses XmlSimple (XML::Simple) unsafely, as demonstrated by reading passwords from the Pidgin (Gaim) .purple/accounts.xml file.
Impact Analysis
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Remediation
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References
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3508
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28136
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26096
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-17.xml
- http://osvdb.org/40717
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195315
- http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2007/10/5/rails-1-2-4-maintenance-release
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307179
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27657
- http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/8453
Affected Vendor
david hansson
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